Make sure you don’t miss out on this amazing offer and get your pipettes working and feeling like new

During February 2013 Anachem will service and calibrate your pipettes for only £7.50*. You can send anything from a single pipette to multiples of ten or more depending on how many you have.Anachem is the largest and most experienced pipette service & calibration organisation in the UK & Ireland. With over 30 years expertise in all aspects of pipette maintenance for all makes and model of pipettes. Our pipette service guarantees trouble–free pipetting and provides convenience with minimal administration...

The Shimadzu University has recently held a series of complimentary ‘Sharing best practice’ events at the company’s Centre of Excellence in Milton Keynes

These were open to any Shimadzu customers interested in learning more about how to get the most reliable results from their methods. Six events were held over six days, with 178 attendees from a range of areas, including hospitals, pharmaceuticals, public sector and private industry. The event programmes covered how to apply best practice in LC/LCMS, GC/GCMS and Spectroscopy. Participants engaged in hands-on practical exercises, workshops and question and answer sessions with experts...

A major new international food safety training facility, aimed at improving compliance with EU food import standards, is being launched today by The Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera) and analytical equipment manufacturer Waters®

A significant proportion of food safety incidents reported in the EU are due to imports, therefore ensuring the legal compliance and safety of imported food is vital for protecting consumers. The EU and other international organisations have recognised the value of improving food safety testing globally, so that risks can be identified and tackled at source. In the EU alone the value of exports and imports of foodstuffs today exceeds £690 billion (over 860 billion Euros)...

The storm that broke in the press following the discovery of horse DNA in burgers on sale in Britain has rocked the supermarket giants and a sparked widespread concern about all aspects of food safety

But in some respects, the surprise is that people are surprised. The risk of adulteration of food either by unscrupulous traders or lackadaisical processors is something to which standards agencies - not just in the UK but around the world - must stay continually alert.It is generally accepted that dubious practices in the meat processing industry are far from a new phenomenon. A director of environmental health, writing recently in the Times, recalled a two-year investigation in 1980-81 into the sale of horse, kangaroo, donkey, buffalo and knacker meat as beef in burgers, which led to the staining of unfit meat...

Hichrom's 2013 HPLC training programme is now available, featuring courses covering every area of HPLC and UHPLC and delivered by world-renowned experts including John Dolan and Mel Euerby

Whether you are a relative newcomer to HPLC or a seasoned veteran, you can benefit from one of these courses. In addition to the full programme of 1 and 2 day courses, a series of short 1 to 2 hour “breakfast” or “lunch” seminars is also available.Topics covered will show you how to decrease costs, increase throughput, prevent costly method problems occurring, transfer methods from HPLC to UHPLC and develop faster, more reproducible HPLC/UHPLC assays in a time effective manner....

A major award from the Canada Foundation for Innovation to Professor André B. Charette allowed the Department of Chemistry at the Université de Montréal to take delivery of 5 Vapourtec R-Series systems, taking the total number installed to 6

The systems are equipped for the full range of reaction types (high temperature, cryogenic, homogeneous and heterogeneous), with advanced Flow Commander^TMcontrol software for maximum productivity, efficient Design of Experiments and reliable data recording.The department is one of the member institutions of the Centre in Green Chemistry and Catalysis, (a consortium drawing members from all the major Quebec universities) which provides analytical and synthesis services to the whole scientific community in Quebec...

NanoSight reports on how Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, NTA, is used in the work of Dr Ilya Kurochkin of Lomonosov Moscow State University in the development of new bioanalytical systems for environmental and biomedical monitoring

The North West Fund for Biomedical, managed by SPARK Impact, has now invested more than £10million in SMEs across a range of biomedical areas including pharmaceuticals, medical devices and diagnostics

Two recent investments of £125,000 in back therapy device company LumbaCurve and £250,000 in Oxtox, which has developed a drug detection device intended for use by police officers, have seen the fund reach this latest milestone, just two years after its launch in December 2010.Other investments which helped SPARK Impact reach the £10million mark include follow-on funding to four companies; £200,100 to biomedical software firm Compliance Control, £120,000 to urology company Albert Medical Devices, £100,000 to medical device firm Westco Medical Limited and £100,000 to drug discovery spin-out company Onco-NX...

Leading oncology company Incanthera has launched a partnership with global investment group Technomark Life Sciences

Biotech startup first in the world to offer metagenomic sequencing to the public

Optimising next generation DNA and RNA sequencing studies

A WORLD’S FIRST education and research initiative announced today will see the UK spearhead a collaborative global search for more ethical, human-relevant alternatives to animal testing

In using a sterilisation process from an autoclave on the lab bench, dentist, pharmacy, vet, tattooist etc. or another process like radiation, ethylene oxide, dry heat or hydrogen peroxide during manufacture or waste treatment there is one thing in common. You need to know that the process works efficiently. What is the best way for you? Is a Bowie and Dick test enough?

Sterilisation and autoclaving is such an important factor for many industries or laboratories. Whether for regulation or plain old piece of mind the effectiveness of these process in all of these industries should be monitored. Common validation methods like the Bowie and Dick tests and chemical indicators (colour changing dots/stickers) simply indicate that the autoclave or steriliser has actually done the job it has been built to do. They do NOT prove that the job has been effective at killing particular bacterial cultures / spores...

The Anti-Doping Control Laboratory at Barcelona’s Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) is a world-recognized facility performing dope testing of athletes and animals for national and international sporting events, and was an early adopter of LGC Standards LoGiCal range of reference materials

Rapid technological advances will highlight the need for skilled technicians and physicians

ALMSCO International (Llantrisant, UK) has launched a new website focusing on BenchTOF-dx, its time-of-flight mass spectrometer for GC, providing the analytical chemistry community with a valuable online resource

XEI Scientific Inc, maker of the popular EVACTRON® De-Contaminator™ Plasma Cleaning System for electron microscopes and other vacuum chambers, reports on how leading contract materials characterization laboratory, RJ Lee Group, Inc., have used an Evactron® specimen cleaning chamber to clean samples ahead of analysis in electron microscopes

Linkam Scientific Instruments have been chosen as suppliers of a TST350 stage for the Complex Fluids and Polymer Engineering Division, National Chemical Laboratory, India to study the mechanical properties of dimethyl dibenzylidene sorbitol (DMDBS)

Thermo Fisher Scientific is pleased to announce a customer case study on the effective adoption of upgraded gas chromatography (GC) technology into an existing workflow with improved results and minimal effort

TA Instruments has presented the Distinguished Young Rheologist Award to two scientists: Dr. Anson W. K. Ma, of the University of Connecticut, and Dr. Ali Mohraz, of the University of California, Irvine

In a session devoted to protein aggregation and emerging analytical tools at this year’s PepTalk conference, Dr E. Neil Lewis, Chief Technology Officer for Malvern Instruments, will discuss ‘Recent advances in the integrated measurements of size, high order structure and formulation viscosity of biopharmaceutical formulations’

Scientific Laboratory Supplies Ltd., the UK’s largest independent supplier of scientific equipment, chemicals and consumables, announce their new and exciting development - SLS Life Science